Show POWDER WORKS BLEW UP does des great damage and killrand Kill sand i injures many men st louis nov 23 A special to the post dispatch from Iou slana mo says a teril terrific fic explosion occurred at the Hercules Powder works deac Ash ashburn vurn in this cout county ity at 8 this morning causing the earth to for or many miles around The packing house was completely demolished several buildings demolished and at least six men killed th the known dead are willie wilson jr son of the superintendent in will chariton charlton J hollen grcen green benile wenz le lloyd smith albert b e rt miller it is impossible to learn at this writing whether other men were killed or the names of the injured the cause of the explosion la Is not definitely known there was a terrific roar and the roofs and walls of the packing room were thrown into the air as it if shot from a volcano window glasses were shattered for a radius of ten miles the employed emp loyes were thrown I 1 into tho the air by the force of the explosion and then their bruised battered and torn bodies fell back amid the wreckage A dozen people were anju injured red by flying debris one bouse house half halt a mile away was demolished by a hugh mass of brick aud and mortar rescue parties are at work with all their might trying to reach the burned men A special train was made up in 11 hannibal annIbal and a large number of citizens hastened to the scene |